Matthue Roth

Matthue Roth's newest book is Automatic. He is also the author of three novels and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go, and is an associate editor at MyJewishLearning.com. His screenplay 1/20 is currently in production as a feature film.


Articles by Matthue Roth

Name Your Favorite Old Synagogue, Win an iPad

Here’s one way that you can help out a historic synagogue — and help yourself in the process!Congregation Beth Elohim, ...

Yom Ha’atzmaut, Motorcycles Included

Tomorrow is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day! To celebrate, we thought we’d share this mini-documentary we filmed one year at ...

How’s Everything?

Yesterday a man came to see me for an appointment. As he came in to the office he asked me, ...

Jonathan Safran Foer on the Haggadah

It seems like the whole world is afire with Jonathan Safran Foer’s new haggadah, which he’s been planning since at ...

Showdown at the Co-Op

So, um, yeah. The coop last night. Utter craziness.First, a recap from the The Daily Show: The Daily Show with ...

Stereo Sinai Learn to Skate

Our friends Stereo Sinai — who we’ve gushed about on Jewniverse, and who you can pick up a free mp3 ...

Steven Colbert Interviews Maruice Sendak

We can’t get enough of Maurice Sendak. The author, illustrator and Sesame Street animator is famously both crotchety and warm. ...

Bob Holman

Bob Holman goes to Israel.

Harry Potter Talks Jewish Day Schools

This is hilarious: Imagine there’s a Jewish day school called Chagwartz. And imagine that their biggest donor, Lucius Malfoyberg, suddenly ...

Free Jewish-Books Summer Camp!

When I was a kid, I got sent to a sports camp outside of Philadelphia. Which was sort of the ...